Supplemental metallic picture-holding strip.



PATENTED DEC. 24 1907.

I G. F. DREW. SUPPLEMENTAL METALLIC PICTURE HOLDING STRIP.

APPIJGATION FILED MAR. 6, 1 907.

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GEORGE F. DREW, OF BRUNSWICK, MAINE.

SUPPLEMENTAL METALLIC PICTURE-HOLDING STRIP. I

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 24:, 1 907.

Application filed March 6.1907. Serial No. 360,979,

To all whom it may concern." Be it known that I, GEORGE F. DREW, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Brunswick, in the county of 5 Cumberland and State of Maine, have in vented certain new and useful Improvements in Supplemental Metallic Picture-Holding Strips, of which the following is a specification.

In a companion application for U. S. Letters Patent filed by me concurrently with this, is shown and described a sheet-metal picture-holding strip of novel construction.

In the present invention, which also relates to metallic picture-moldings, the same consists of an integral flexible molding strip made of wire bent so as to form a plurality ofv continuously connected flat parallel up and down loops having the upper portion thereof adapted to engage a wooden molding so as to constitute supporting members, and having the lower portion of the loops bent to form hooks for supporting or suspending pictureholding cords therefrom/all as more fully hereinafter set forth and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents, in front elevation, a short length or section of my improved picture-holding device, as made of wire. Fig. 2 is a corresponding top plan view. Fig. 3 is a side or end elevation of the device showing the normal relation of the same when combined with a common wooden picture-molding secured to the side wall of a room. Fig. 4 is a front elevation showing the wire bent to the flat coil form and constituting the blank from which the completed strip, represented in Figs. 1 and 2, is formed. Fig. 5 represents a modified form of the blank illustrated in Fig.

1, and Fig. 6 is a cross-sectional view, in enlarged scale, taken on line a: at of Fig. 5.

In my present improved picture-holding strip A, Fig. 1, the device is formed from the blank B, represented in Fig. 4. The latter being produced from a continuous length of suitable wire bent to form a plurality of uniformly spaced continuously connected short flat parallel loops or sections the upper bends b alternating with the lower bends d and being joined to the straight parallel members a, the latter constituting the body portion of the blank, as clearly shown.

In order to produce the finished holding strip A (Figs. 1, 2 and 3)the upper ends b of the several loops are bent in front at sub stantially right angles to the flat plane of the gbody members a to form lips 5 adapted when in use to rest freely upon the upper rear portion of thewooden molding. The lower ends (1 of the loops are bent to form front open cord-supporting hooks ti the cord 1 being indicated by dotted lines in Fig.

1 and resting upon the bottom members of of the hook.

The manner of mounting the holding strip A is clearly represented in Fig. 3, wherein the strip is located at the back of the usual wooden molding strip m and adjacent the front surface of the wall w; the arrangement being such that the upper hooks or lips 6 rest upon the flat member m usually provided at the upper rear edge of the wooden molding.

I prefer to make the width of the holding strip A such that when mounted substantially as just described only the bottom hooks (Z will be exposed. Any suitable securing means, as nails a, may be employed for fastening the two strip members, we and A, in position, all as clearly indicated in Fig. 3.

In order to reduce the thickness of the space formed between the adjacent faces of the member m and wall to by the interposed auxiliary holding strip A of wire, the same, or rather the body portion a thereof, may be flattened by suitable means thereby materially reducing the thickness while still retaining the same crosssectional area. See Figs. 5 and 6.

It may be added that the present improved picture-holding strip A possesses advantages over other metallic moldings of this general character: That is to say, it may be manufactured or produced more cheaply, and is comparatively inexpensive it is materially lighter; it may be readily cut or severed into pieces having any desired length the hooks d are not conspicuous when the molding is mounted as in use, and, owing to its flexibility, the holding strip is adapted to be readily rolled into bundles in a manner similar to rolling wire-woven fencing or netting, thereby economizing space in transportation and facilitating the handling of the same.

I claim as my invention 1. As a new and improved article of manufacture the picture holding strip substantially as herein described, the same consisting of a continuous length of wire formed into alternate up and down loops having parallel 110 intermediate connecting portions lying in a single plane, the upper and lower bends of the strip being bent toward the front at suitengage and be supported by said molding able angles, the upper bends adapted when in and the lower loops to project in front and use to engage a picture molding proper and form picture cord holders, substantially as the lower ones forming picture cord hooks. set forth. 15 5- 2. The combination with a picture mold- Signed at Providence, R. 1., this 22nd day ing proper, of) a sugpllemental piciture holding of February, 1907. stri laced ehin t 1e same an comprising a odhiinuous length of wire formed into a se- GEORGE DREW ries of alternate upper and lower loops united Witnesses: 10 by parallel intermediate members lying in a ALFRED CALDWELL,

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